The Connection Between Silence and Stigma Are people encouraging the silence of their stigmatized characteristics? The stigmatized attributes in societies today are known in all cultures but people who have these attributes always prefer to not show it, but in order to get help or get rid of these attributes, they need to talk about it and discuss it. Tumblr is a social network that encourages and supports the freedom of speech and to share principles, beliefs, and opinions about any thing they want. It permits its members to post pictures, text, quotes, links, videos, and music even if it is stigmatized. Upon researching these blogs and observing their community, I found that Tumblr’s users act really freely and discuss the most critical issues without a fear of publishing their opinions, and there was a lot of meaningful messages. Over the past years Tumblr has become more and more popular and people find it very convenience to express their interest and feeling by posing blogs especially for those who are struggling from certain disorders and cannot talk about in their real life, but Tumblr post a new policy against and prevent self-harm blogs recently and the language of this policy was clear. The Tumblr policy against self-harm blogs stigmatizes users who have self-harmed because it limits them from revealing and over coming their disorders and sickness. Tumblr new policy against pro-self-harm blogs content strongly aims to prevent posting any self-harm blogs. This policy limits the users, who are suffering from having anorexia, bulimia, and other forms of self-harm from exposing their illness. This policy have been stated on Tumblr website “Don't post content that actively promotes or glorifies self-harm…[like] embrace anorexia, bulimia…[and] seeking counseling or treatment, or joining together in supportive conversation with those suffering or recovering from depression or other conditions” (Follow Up: Tumblr’s New Policy Against Pro-Self-Harm Blogs). Their goal from posting this new policy is to restrict users, who have these difficulties; from publishing any blogs that explain or show their attitudes or their beliefs that influence the readers and encourage them to self-harm. Consequently, this policy clearly stigmatized people who self-harm because it points to not encourage Tumblr’s readers to be self-harmed and that shows that self-harm is one of the things that people should be embarrassed about. However, people, who have the desire to know more about self-harm, can find it anywhere in the internet even if it is not on Tumblr, but the main point is Tumblr was permitting its users to post any blogs about self-harm on the past so, those people already used to communicate through Tumblr’s blogs and that’s why there are huge mixed reactions from people, who support and not support this policy which is against self-harm blogs. In addition to defining Tumblr new policy against self-harm blogs, there are also many definitions of the term stigma but the best one is that stigma is like a black spot on someone’s character and it remains for a long time. Goffman, Erving in his article mentions many types of stigma like bad personality traits, weakness, mental disorder, criminality, unemployment, addiction, and mental disorder. Also, it can be defined as a mark of a social disgrace and a powerful negative label. Stigma can be applied based someone’s religious, country, skin, emotions, behavior, actions, job, and appearance and it vary from couture to another. In the article “Selections From Stigma,” Goffman informs that stigma is connected to the discredited attributes (204). Goffman here mentions the term sigma as characteristics that were disgraced by society, which carries dishonor or shame upon someone personality. Consequently, people who have one of these disgraced characters are usually stigmatized. For instance, People who were in the prison, they do not have the right to vote in certain states at U.S because...

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...﻿Alexander Carroll
07/03/14
SOC 261
Paper 2
Stigma and the Audience
Labeling and stigma are key elements in becoming deviant and like every type of deviance the audience does the labeling and the stigmatizing of the actor committing the act. The stigmatization process entails that an audience labels an activity, belief or condition as deviant and then labels a specific individual as a deviant. Stigma is simply a stain or social undesirability, an indication to the world that a person has been singled out as a shameful, marked, and morally discredited human being. For the audience or the one stigmatizing, they view the one visible deviant act as the tip of the iceberg. To the audience, the one deviant act may hide a much wider range of deviance. According to Erving Goffman stigma is the manifestation or outward appearance of an inner deficiency, one that either has been or may be noticed, which results or would result in infamy and dishonor. Once being publicly caught in the deviant act the stigmatized individual is placed with a new status. What so unique about sex is that more often than not it is very private act that depending on the situation can result in a stigma that separates the actor from the normative. (3)(4)(6)
Oddly enough, society tends to have great deal of rules and input when it comes to sex. Including who, what, when, where, and how norms and even laws that govern our sexual acts. In...

...In the world of literature, various authors often utilize an assortment of unique writing tools to develop a strong relationship between him/herself and the reader. This relationship between author and audience is the most important that an author must consider when writing his/her literature. Especially true in detective fiction, authors are frequently searching for matchless ways to keep their audience involved and searching for the next piece of evidence. This is particularly the case when dealing with the two stories My Brother Jack, by Garry Disher, and A Mystery of the Sand-Hill, by R. Austin Freeman. In many ways these two stories are very similar; the use of a side-kick, by way the detective investigates and puts evidence together, or how there is one central problem that everyone is commonly working towards are just to name a few. However, these two stories are not so comparable at all. And although the two stories differ in general ways, the main, less obvious, yet, more defining difference is the author's use of his audience in context.
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...The Connectionbetween Man and Nature
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...Connectionbetween poverty and obesity
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...Room 203, which is full of gang and racial tension. She knows that they need to learn tolerance so that they can reclaim their shattered lives and gain a voice of their own. She tries many different teaching approaches to connect with and engage her class. This shows that she was trying to establish equality in the classroom and make enemies friends in order to help them see each other as people, not as problems or enemies. This is illustrated when she introduces the Line Game, a tool used to highlight the similarities between all of the students. They look into each others eyes and see the pain that has been caused by the rivalry. From then on they begin the journey of reconciliation further showing Ms Gruwell’s influence on them. When they “walk into the room (they) feel as though all the problems in life are not so important anymore, that (they) are home” further emphasizes that their pain and distress unites them and creates a meaningful relationship between even the greatest of enemies. It is the only place that they could “truly be themselves.” Richard LaGravenese wants the audience to understand and recognise that we, as humans, really aren’t that different from each other. To do this we need to stop isolating ourselves and alienating others. The process of choosing an us-oriented life, helps us to receive a better understanding of people, giving us the hope of a brighter future. LaGravenese makes the audience deeply want to feel the love...

...﻿What is the connectionbetween wealth and education?
Is it education gives us wealth, or wealth gives us an education?
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...Maury Calzada 11English
AS90852
I have been studying four texts for this report, "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, "A Party Down at the Square" by Ralph Waldo Elison, "Mississipi Burning" by Alan Parker and "Green Mile" directed by the famous Frank Darabont. All these texts show connections and have similarities to help us to explore the idea of key individuals or group of people or the justice system shows racist attitude. They can do this verbally, physically or turning the blind eye. Verbally means using derogatory language towards Black American. Physical means using violence to make themselves feel superior. Justice system meaning that there is no fair legal trial. Turning the blind eye means bystander effect that is affected by this.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is set in a fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama during 1930's. It charts the small town life of a young white girl, Scout, living in a deeply segregated society. Her father, Atticus, is a lawyer, is given a task of representing Tom Robinson. He is a young black man who is falsely accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. Her father Bob Ewell, humiliated and vows revenge. He spits at Atticus' face tried to get into the judges house and stalks the judges' wife and tried hurting Jem and Scout during the Halloween pageant. During this time Atticus was called a "nigger lover" by Bob Ewell and the townspeople and he still kept his head high and did the best he can do to defend...

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LaTisha M. Green |
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There are many doctors that would agree that there is a connectionbetween physical health and psychological health. When you are getting stressed out over your job because you may be overworked or there are financial problems within your family. All of this could cause you to have some form of physical reaction. We are going to look at how these two things if they are really connected with one another.
Physical Health and Psychology
Your physical health can be affected by all of the things that you are doing, by the way that we gather and process information, your career choices that you make, family, troubles as also the environment in which you live in. It is to be believed that illness and wellness both exist on a continuum. Like for an example if we know someone who may be feeling fine and their liver is getting damaged from all of the drinking that they have been doing for many years. We wouldn’t say that they are dying or sick. What we would probably stay that they are less healthy than they would be if they wasn’t doing the unhealthy thing. Medical sociologist Aaron Antonovsky (1979, 1987) has suggested that we consider these concepts as ends of a continuum, noting that ‘‘We are all terminal cases. And we all are, so long as there is a breath of life in us, in some measure...